Friday night right after work.  Its been a tough week at work and I enjoyed this rum and fruit cocktail watching the city.

They are doing a fine job.

This in my opinion is the best burger in Sydney.  The Reuben Burger from Reuben & Moore. Wagu beef, Swiss cheese, pastrami, lettuce and chipotle mayonnaise.

I just remembered to go grab my events photos from the Capital Punishment 2014 MTB event. I was pleasantly surprised how these photos came out, some of the best quality sports event photos I’ve seen.

Here was just starting and for some reason it looks like I’m on the phone, but i cant remember being on the phone?!? it was very early in the morning.

My team mate Ian just in front of me, like he was 3/4 of the time.

I was really impressed with the lighting and colours in the next 2 photos, especially the golden browns on the tree’s on those dark photos in the early morning forest.

These 2 are right at the end, only a few KM’s to go and it was a long downhill section down Mr Stronglow to the finish.

Sanna and I went kayaking today after breakfast in Lake Conjola. Was a nice way to start the day. The water was so shallow, if you fell in you could stand up and the water would be at your waist at the most.

We visited to see Sannas mums house being built, its about half complete. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a large living room and a double garage.

Today its Sunday and Sanna and I went for a walk around Sydneys North head. It was on and off raining all the  time but were not scared of the rain. You get to North head via the Manly ferry.

At North head we discovered some lovely views of the city and a lot of history from the 2 world wars. We found a old fort painted in a strange camouflage design, looks like happy camouflage.

There are tunnels underneath that can be explored via a tour. Dad we will have to do that with you one day. We are now on the ferry back to the city a bit cold and wet.

It’s always peaceful walking around the harbour. This is from Balmain. Notice the houses that look like they are from holand.

As I discussed in my main article on the race last week, Ian suffered 2 tyre blowouts in the first half of the race, such a shame. Below you can see how I believe it affected our split times.

2 x tyre blowout repairs took us we worked out 17 minutes, so our actual finish time was  4:41

Here are some photos from our friends weekend away to Foresters Beach which is 1 hour north (with no traffic) of Sydney.

11 of us in total, me Sanna Courtney Brendon Marty Roby Easton Sam Roland Hanna Basma and Yasmin, full up beach house.

It’s race time for Ian and I, we trained well this time, long distance weekend training and I ride to work 30km’s each day.

The race is in Canberra and its 100km hence its called the Capital Punishment 100km enduro.

Arrived at Akhils house in Canberra and tuning the bikes.

My race day diet of various fast absorbing gels and unnatural substances, but they work.

Me and our Canberra host Akhil

7am and ready to start the race. I’ve had my usual race day breaky of bananas on toast with honey.

Tragic happenings, Ian’s rear tyre blew out! Took 10 minutes to fix.

Another rear tyre blowout, such bad luck. We were out of spares, a passing women chucked  us a spare tube, saved! This 1 took us just 5 mins to fix.

100km’s finish! We did it in 4hrs 55min, that includes the untimed section where we cruised slow. Will upload official time when I get it.

This is my tired face.

Free beer at the finish, gotta love the relaxed nature of MTB events 🙂

Cheers

Capital Punishment is a great event, fast and flowing single track 80% of the time, not many hills at all and well organised, I would recommend it.